Los Angeles Massage Parlors: Tallying the bottom line for Tokyo women in the sex trade
… We work on a commission basis, so no customers means no money,” she tells Shukan Jitsuwa (Dec. 17). “The shop guarantees 30,000 yen per diem for us to show up. But when business is slow the number of girls on duty are cut. So even if we want to work we can’t. Anyway, there’s no demand.”
To win back clients, some soaps have begun offering an increasingly rough-and-tumble range of services heretofore unavailable. These would include soku-shaku and soku-beddo (on-the-spot oral sex and intercourse as soon as the patron enters the room); the usual matto play atop an air mattress; and bareback rides.
“We’re with the customer for 120 minutes, and must undergo strict training in customer etiquette from start to finish,” says Azusa. “I think jobs at ‘image clubs’ and ‘fashion health’ (erotic massage parlors) are a lot easier, both physically and psychologically.”
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